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Dreams of Germany

Dreams of Germany

Neil Gregor | Thomas Irvine

(2018)

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Abstract

For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the ‘land of music’. But just how was this reputation established and transformed over time, and to what extent was it produced within or outside of Germany? Through case studies that range from Bruckner to the Beatles and from symphonies to dance-club music, this volume looks at how German musicians and their audiences responded to the most significant developments of the twentieth century, including mass media, technological advances, fascism, and war on an unprecedented scale.


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A wonderful anthology that connects the European classical tradition with popular music in fascinating ways. It is a pleasure to read.” • Ulrich Adelt, University of Wyoming


Neil Gregor is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton. His past books include Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich (winner of the 1998 Fraenkel Prize for History), Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past (winner of the 2008 Fraenkel Prize for History), and How to Read Hitler (new edition, 2014).


Thomas Irvine is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. He has published widely in leading musicology journals in English and German. His book Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770-1839 is published by University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Dreams of Germany iii
Copyright Page iv
Contents vii
Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part I. Spaces and Moments of Affect 31
Chapter 1. \"The German in the Concert Hall 33
Chapter 2. \"Music Made in Hamburg\" 54
Chapter 3. \"With Every Inconceivable Finesse, Excess, and Good Music 73
Part II. The Local, the Regional, the National 95
Chapter 4. Bruckner, Munich, and the Longue Duree of Musical Listening between the Imperial and Postwar Eras 97
Chapter 5. Female Musicians and \"Jewish\" Music in the Jewish Kulturbund in Bavaria, 1934-38 123
Chapter 6. Pride of Place 145
Part III. Globalizing Musical Germanness 167
Chapter 7. Was ist Japanisch? 169
Chapter 8. Hubert Parry, Germany, and the \"North\" 194
Part IV. Fantasies, Reminiscences, Dreams, Nightmares 219
Chapter 9. Between Musicology and Mythology at the Stunde Null 221
Chapter 10. Hearing the Nazi Past in the German Democratic Republic 247
Chapter 11. Sprockets + Autobahn 272
Index 296